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the perfect goofy Halloween movie. It’s got
🎃 practical effects!
🕯️ romance!
👻 combat!
💀 a banger soundtrack (incl. a bespoke theme song.)
Oct 10, 2024
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An autumnal kitsch has caught me and I’m watching goofy creature features again (I do count Rock Hudson as a creature, because all his men are horrible and delightful)
Oct 4, 2024
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1984 spooky valley girl zombie masterpiece. You think it’s gonna be about Reggie and her hair, but it’s really about her sister Samantha and her outfits.
If I taught a film class, I’d show this movie as a perfect (perfectly imperfect?) example of how to create on a budget. The sky effects, how everyone disappears (not a spoiler) - never seen anything like it but you know it had to be CHEAP.
I think you can watch on Tubi.
Bonus Rec: Tubi.
Oct 25, 2024
visually exotic and invasive, good scares, good sound, campy, grotesque. Makes you giddy one moment and revolted the next. All around a fun time.
Jan 17, 2025
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No screen Sundays. If I want to listen to music its CDs or radio. If I want to watch a movie, no I don’t. If I want to see a friend, I will make plans with them on Friday or Saturday to meet up. As a result, I read more, write more, and sit with questions like “did Citizen Kane‘s 50 year winning streak in the Sight and Sound critics choice survey end in 2012 or 2022? When did Stephen Merritt come out? Whats the etymology of Whitsun?“
This is something that I have practiced off and on for many years but I’ve been doing it every week since December and I love the way that it just allows me one day of true freedom and rest.
Jan 22, 2025
Mar 3, 2025
My calendar this year has 52 of these week at a glance pages but I don’t think that way. So, I've been inspired by Ross Gay’s Book of Delighs to start recording the little moments and sensations that bring me joy throughout the day. An analog pi.fyi, if you will.
heres some of what I have so far:
- Waking up to the sound of my upstairs neighbor‘s footstep. It sounded nostalgic. Felt like company.
- Strawberry jam
- feeling tender for strangers: their lips, nail colors, their small wrists. Thinking of all the lives we hold gently.
- A young girl bought an LP at the bookstore just before I left. She stroked its cover with love
- Green tiles —the mint shade always makes me think of Jancie
- Charlie’s little bop and punch dancing to some German language punk
- lunch with Katherine, curry Brussels sprouts
- small talk at the photo studio. The photographer's brother was named after their dad, stole his identity, bought jet skis.
Jan 13, 2025